kids are the ones with the wisdom, if only we didn't grow up to lose most all of it.. kids are our future as well.. where is the responsibility from the corporations and governments of the world towards them and the whole world by extension? until the bottom line becomes one of people and enviroment, instead of the dollar, we will continue to suffer at the hands of corporations and gov'ts who put economic concerns ahead of the children of our future.. it is all we have.

I'm reminded of the very funny but all too true book by Robert Fulgam, "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten"

Scott, just curious: did you discuss how to engage in diplomacy with the classroom bully? Their insights might be useful for foreign and American politicians trying to deal with the Bush administration.

Children know nothing about democracy.
Most americans, Ron PAUL maybe, don't know what democracy is about because they don't care and they don't vote.
Children copy their parents and just like JohnN, I am interrested to know what kind of democracy these children used to deal with the classroom bully ?

Hope seems to come at the end of wars when the blood-letting ceases and in the mids't of pain and ruin the rebuilding begins.

Hope was what Rooselvet offered to a population crushed by the Great Depressionbut I shudder to try to imagine what it might take to restore hope in our time. As you say there are the children, but mankind has never hesitated to sacrifice them and wrap them in a flag.

Nice, worthwhile.

But let's not forget that their hope won't have anywhere to take off from if we don't fix a few things right now.